I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

The most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.